Health Wildcatters

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

$4.5M

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

28.04.2015

Date

2

all rounds

$9.1M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Health Wildcatters is a Dallas-based seed accelerator that supports healthcare startups.

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founded date

01.05.2013

Number of employees

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The accelerator is open to companies in various healthcare sectors, such as IT, SaaS, and diagnostics. They look for well-rounded founder teams with relevant technical and business knowledge who need seed capital to support living expenses while bootstrapping. Health Wildcatters encourages startups planning on self/angel/customer financing as a next step coming out of the program.
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People

Founders
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Gabriella Draney
Gabriella Draney

Gabriella Draney

Gabriella Draney Zielke is Co-founder and CEO of Tech Wildcatters, a Top 10 seed accelerator for technology startups. She recently co-founded and is also a Partner in Health Wildcatters, a healthcare based seed accelerator. Also a part of the Wildcatters family is the international startup exchange GlobeStart. Prior to TW she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas, where she served on the Board of CelAccess. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. She went on to work for Morgan Stanley in private wealth management. True to her entrepreneurial roots, she left to follow her passion for nutrition by opening a specialty foods retail store, and simultaneously spent three years consulting with numerous Dallas-based startups on strategic planning, finance and fund raising. Gabriella received her MBA in Strategy & Entrepreneurship from Southern Methodist University as a Cox Distinguished Merit Scholar, during which she interned for Silver Creek Ventures. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of North Texas with a BBA in Finance.

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Gabriella Draney

Carl Soderstrom
Carl Soderstrom

Carl Soderstrom

Mr. Soderstrom is a founding partner of Green Park & Golf Ventures and is currently serving in a role with Texas Health Physician Group (THPG). He is a member of the board of directors of Caddis Partners, a Dallas based healthcare real estate investment firm. Additionally he serves on the Board of Dallas-based PerioSciences. Mr. Soderstrom served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of PhyServe Physician Services, Inc. for 14 years before joining THPG, and brings 23 years of experience in physician practice management. Prior to joining PhyServe, he was Chief Operating Officer for Metroplex Emergency Physicians for two years, a company that ultimately spun off the initial practices that became the first clients of PhyServe. Mr. Soderstrom lead the effort to sell that medical group to EmCare in 1998. From 1989- 1996, he worked for Coastal Healthcare Group, Inc. in North Carolina, helping to grow the company to $750M and become one of the first physician practice management companies to go public in 1992. Mr. Soderstrom served as Chief Operating Officer of the $500M Emergency Services Division until 1996. Mr. Soderstrom attended Illinois State University where he received his B.A. in business, and received his MBA from The University of Notre Dame in 1988. He was recognized as a finalist in 2010 for Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the Southwest Region of the United States

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Health Wildcatters
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Clay Heighten
Clay Heighten

Clay Heighten

Dr. Heighten is a founding member of Green Park and Golf Ventures. After completion of residency training at the Southwestern Medical School affiliated Parkland Hospital program in Dallas, Texas he practiced Emergency Medicine for 13 years. In the early 1990’s Dr. Heighten was one of five physicians founding Metroplex Emergency Physicians Associates, P.A. “MEPA”. MEPA employed and managed emergency medicine providers contracting with 23 hospitals at its peak in Texas and surrounding states. MEPA was sold in 1998 to EMCARE a publiCally traded emergency services provider. In 1994, Dr. Heighten founded the physician organization that ultimately became known as Medical Edge Healthcare Group, P.A. “MEHG”. MEHG at the time of its acquisition in 2010 by Texas Health Resources, “THR”, employed over 400 doctors and mid-level providers and owned facilities providing a comprehensive range of ancillary and laboratory services that in aggregate accounted for over 1.5 million patient encounters per year. Dr. Heighten completed the integration of MEHG into the Texas Health Physician Group in 2013. Dr. Heighten was also a founder and board member of Physerve Physician Services, “Physerve”. Physerve provided comprehensive management support to multiple physician groups across the USA and was also sold to THR. Dr. Heighten is also a founding member of Caddis Partners, a real estate development and management company specializing in healthcare properties. Caddis has consistently ranked as a top developer by number of square feet developed in North Texas. Dr. Heighten serves on multiple boards of directors of early stage healthcare companies and is a co-founder of Dallas based Health Wildcatters, a healthcare focused business accelerator.

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Hubert Zajicek
Hubert Zajicek

Hubert Zajicek

Hubert Zajicek is CEO & Co-founder of Health Wildcatters, a healthcare seed fund and accelerator in Dallas, TX. Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, capital and guidance to up to 12 healthcare related startups during an intensive 12 week program which culminates in a pitch day annually. Health Wildcatters three funds are invested in over 30 healthcare startup companies. Dr. Zajicek has extensive experience with startups and is an active speaker, panelist and thought leader on healthcare innovation, startups, entrepreneurship & financing. He serves as advisor, mentor and board member on various organizations and startup companies. He was managing director – medical technology at NTEC (North Texas Enterprise Center), where he ran what eventually became the Southwest’s largest medtech investment conference, showcasing startups that attracted in excess of $300M. Prior, he was on faculty at UT Southwestern, as an NIH funded principal investigator, in the Departments of Internal medicine and Cell Biology. He is president and founder of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs – DFW chapter, co-founder & partner of Lone Star Angels and is on the Board of the Southwest Venture Forum. He has an MD from the University of Vienna and an MBA from SMU.

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Employee Profiles
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Akhil Reddy

Mentor

Rishi Khullar

Rishi Khullar

Mentor, Investor

Sunny Nadolsky

Sunny Nadolsky

Mentor, Investor, Alumna

Lindsey Settles

Program Manager

Vinny Jindal

Mentor

Thomas White

Thomas White

Mentor

Hubert Zajicek

Hubert Zajicek

Co-Founder, Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Clay Heighten

Clay Heighten

Co-founder & Partner

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